When Love Hurts You

Lying on the floor cradling my pounding head in the crook of my arm, drawing the design of the rug with my finger while clutching tissues.  In the past twenty-four hours, the thing that I fear has come upon me. Walking in he announces the promise he made before God,...

Her Resurrection Understanding

Today is Passover.  Papa and I will celebrate it together without Mother for the first time. My name is Sarah, and I am eleven. Yesterday I prepared all of the food for our Seder meal today.  Last year Mother and I cooked it together.  I miss her so much… The streets...

Bunny Cake

We like to make a rabbit cake at Easter time, an Oryctolagus cuniculus of the rarest kind. My mother began making this cake when I was small for my birthday, which was always close to Easter.  And we have continued the tradition! Here is how you make an Easter Bunny...

Awakened

Gently she teases my eye lids to rise, “Come and see”.  First one lid then the other, slowly responding to her call. It has arrived, the cyclical gift, a present participle of the Word made flesh. The light of the world risen. The gift, she lingers here...

Ripping Apart to Make One

Velcro tearing was the sound, and the two who were one, began pulling at the seam, trying to clean out what encumbered they’re the union. Marriage is work.  Sometimes you want Five o’clock to arrive on the marriage clock so that you can quit working.  All...

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